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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
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Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.
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One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
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This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
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Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.
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The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.
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If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves and more than that, it is an instigator.
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Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.
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My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.
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A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.
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The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.
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The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
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